Smyrna times., 1887-07-20
Smyrna and Vicinity.

The soda fountains are plying vigor-
Ously.
]. G. LECOMPT advertises peach trees
of choice varieties.
GYPsIEs are encampe1 between
Smyrna and Clayton.
The Steamer Tygert is carrying full
loads of wheat and oats every trip.
TAKE a vacation if you can, but re-
member there's no rest for the wicked.
WANAMAKER & Brown present
fresh attractions to our readers this
week.
The attention of our local builders
is called to the bids for Town Hall i'm
prOvements.
THE Ladies' Benevolent Society will
meet Tuesday evening, July 26th, at
eight O'Clock, at Mrs. E. COoper's.
THE Bethel Sunday-school, which in
cludes MoOrtOn and vicinity, will have
their day at Woodland Beach to-
morrow.
SEVERAL of our produce shippers are
losers by the failure of the well known
commission house of Baker Brothers,
of Philadelphia.
WE would like to add keep cool p
but the advice wOnld be a burlesuue on
the weather. But we must say, Keep
as cool as you can"
The hot weather has hurried the
berry season to a speedy conclusion.
The prices we think have been more
satisfactory than last year.
A CENSUS was taken of Clayton some
weeks ago and the population was
found to be 480. Forty-eight babies
were included in this number.
THE foundation for an annex to the
school house at Clayton was laid yes
terday, to give larger accommodations
to the increasing number of scholars.
WE have no reports of big yields OF
wheat per acre this season as is often
the case, but from all sides we hear
that the grain is very plump and fine.
THE Clayton NJ. P. Sunday school
rode down to Woodland Beach on
Thursday and returned in the evening
much delighted with the days pleas
ures.
The Episcopal Sunday School who
pic-niced at Woodland Beach the mid
die of last week, report a most delight
ful day on their return home in the
evening.
The new school house, a larger and
improved one, to take the place of the
old one of District No. 4, % miles be-
low Smyrna on the State road, is nearly
completed.
The impression now among the
farmers is, judging from the yield, that
the saw fly or worm did more damage
in cutting off the heads of the wheat
than was at first thought.
The corn crop has been "laid by
under favorable weather, with an Hn-
usual vigorous growth. The critical
time is embraced within the next three
weeks, and with favorable rains the
crops cannot be other than large.
THE editor of the Record very aptly
classes the "lounging on and around
the four corners Saturday night and
until early Sunday morning" a nui-
sance. Many have no other object but
to gaze, and their manners are often
offensive.
A GENTLEMAN who attended the NJ
+. Church on Sunday evening wishes
us to say to those who staid away be-
cause of the warm weather, that it was
the coolest place he found all day, and
he had been hunting since the morning
for a cool place.
A CHICAGO paper puts it thus:
The best anti-pOVerty society fol
a multitude of people would be to en-.
roll their names among teetotalers
Whisky and beer money thus saved
would make million people rich, who
with continued tippling, will end up in
the poor house."
THE lightning struck the stack yarC
of James Cook on the farm of Mrs
DurbOrOw beyond Kenton yesterday
morning and burned the largest of hi
two stacks of wheat. The other stack
II feet distant was not burned. ThC
telegraph wire not far distant was alsC
struck and fused in two places.
THE Kenton NJ. f. Sunday School
so called, but embracing the people o
that whole section of country are pic
nicking to-day at Woodland Beach
There must have been some early ris
ing, for loaded wagons and carriages
commenced passing through this towr
at half past five o'clock this morning
WHAT has become of the free baske
question: Nothing has been hearC
from it lately. Has Smyrna nOthinJ
further to say y?-PeninsuLdr News.
Respectfully referred to the pape
the NeC5 took such delight in calling
the Cumminsville Record that assumed
the sponsorship of the return basket
early in the season.
J. FRANK WILDs, Register of Wills
has granted letters Of administration
upon the estate of Hannah Kersey, lat
OF West Dover Hundred, to James II
Green estate Of Mary Il. Hawkins
late of West Dover Hundred, to Il, r
Grant; estate of Mary A. Lewis, late o
Milford Hundred, 10 Homer NJ. Lewis
estate of Isaac Register, late Of Duel
Creek Hundred, to Thomas jackson.
! BURGLARS robbed the safe Of ext Gov
ernOT Ponder, Of Smyrna, last week
Seventy dollars were stolen, Green's
borough Free Press.
The "oiIice cat'' that is respOnsibl
for SO many slips must have taken thi
clipping and hid it away two or thre
weeks and then brought 1t out as fFes
matter, but that cat couldn't have beef
responsible for substituting Smyrna 70
Milton, where Mr.. Ponder lives.
TIE Robbins Hose Co, Of Dover, a
its last regular meeting, July 11th, '8i
unanimously passed the following reso
luton.
BE it resolved that the thORks Gf Robin
Hose Co, are hereby rendered TO the Git
gems Hose Co, Of Smyrna for the excellen
manner in which they entertained US o
the occasion af our visit to Smyrna on Jul
4th. 1887 and be it further resolved, that
copy Of these resolutions be GlFwarded {
Citizens Hose Co, and also inserted IN tb
papers Of the town.
; w. n. BooGs, Secretary